Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

reason

1
[see also: explain, justify] This argument is invalid for several reasons.

It is for this reason that his argument is incorrect.

The definition is stated in terms of local martingales, rather than martingales, for the technical reason that the former are easier to characterize in applications.

This is the reason for calling f the derivative of g.

The reason this is significant is that......

The reason why...... is that......  

2
 [see also: argue, argument] To see this, we reason as follows.

By the same kind of reasoning it suffices to consider......

Our method of proof will be an adaptation of the reasoning used on pp. 71-72 of [3].

We could have adopted an approach to proving Theorem 2 along a line of reasoning which bears greater resemblance to the treatment of the analogous result in Section 1.


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